I AM Gautama Buddha, having come again. And as usual, I have come in order to give you my guidance and to give that Message to the world, which the world needs now.

Today, I would like to draw your attention to those circumstances of your lives that exist and do not allow you to acquire inner balance, peace, harmony, and happiness.

This is not exactly the happiness that people mean when living in the thick of their lives. My understanding of happiness differs from your understanding of happiness. Do you know why? This is because you consider happiness in terms of the one life of yours that you are living now. I consider happiness not only in terms of the current life but also in terms of all my incarnations, and in terms of the incarnations of all living beings that are currently incarnated on planet Earth or waiting for their coming incarnation.

That is why we have a different understanding of happiness. But we will be able to bring our views of happiness closer if you let yourself go beyond the limits of your views of the reality around you. Make the latitude of your perception of the world a bit wider. Go beyond the limits of what is surrounding you in your life, your daily concerns, and the routine because sooner or later, what you admit in your consciousness manifests in your lives. If you are always focused on your current problems, then you will get nothing but these problems in the future.

Happiness is just the state of your mind. Even when it seems to your external mind that there is no end to the problems and concerns of your life, if you manage to raise your consciousness a little bit higher, you will realize that, in fact, you are the happiest being in this Universe.

It seems to you that I am playing a joke on you. However, from my point of view as an ascended being, I envy you who are incarnated now. Believe me; it is all in your consciousness and in the way that you perceive everything that is taking place around you. Most of your problems, 99 percent of your problems, you create yourself simply because you cannot set your consciousness free and let it go beyond the limits of the reality around you. Happiness is just the state of your mind. In fact, the Teaching that we are giving is the Teaching that will bring you happiness.

Your consciousness is learning to perceive everything around you in terms of the other, Higher reality. And you acquire the knowledge of the Law of Karma. This knowledge and your skills allow you to manage your life situation. You must understand that it is you yourself who separates you from your state of happiness. In other words, you do not allow yourself to be happy.

Let us find an example to illustrate this situation. For example, you are concerned about your neighbors or some other people who possess more things than you. You become envious and wish evil to those people, and in this way you become more and more miserable. You are literally boxed in, and your consciousness cannot go through the nets of envy and anger.

Now let’s see how a wise man behaves. He can feel joy when other people are happy. He can also be happy with the fact that another person can buy something or do something, though he cannot. This man acquires the merits in his heart that allow him to elevate his consciousness over the commonplace and feel joy and happiness in his consciousness.

When you learn to feel joy seeing other people’s achievements, in this way you will find an opportunity for you yourself to be successful. Even if according to your karma of this incarnation you are not allowed to possess much or live comfortably, in this way you will create more favorable conditions for yourself in your next incarnation, and your following life will be more successful and will be full of the things that people consider to be the manifestations of happiness. However, if you continue to develop your positive thinking, you will be able to understand that there aren’t any signs of happiness accepted in your society that can bring true happiness. True happiness consists in your capability to sacrifice yourself for the wellbeing of other living creatures. You sacrifice yourself, and from the point of view of the people who are now living on Earth you are a failure; however, your state feels like quiet inner happiness and bliss. And you will never exchange this state of yours for any riches of the world.

Oh, this state that I am telling you about is available only for the initiates of the highest level. Many of you who are reading these lines may think that what I am talking about now is not about you, because you are concentrated on your human problems too much. However, it is not a secret. I am telling you that this state that I have described will be accessible for all of you at a certain stage of your development. This is the state of the mind of a Buddha. And later on, all of you will become Buddhas. This is the next stage of human development. No matter how you try to put off this stage, it will come anyway because thousands of beings who have already reached the level of consciousness of a Buddha are standing in a line in order to come into embodiment in your world and to render this world their help by taking the sins of the world upon themselves and suffering for humanity. Thus, they expiate the karma of humanity and give humankind one chance after another so that it can return to the evolutionary path of development instead of being destroyed by another devastating cataclysm.

I am happy to give you this Teaching today, as many of you are not happy only because you are lacking the knowledge of Truth. Ignorance is a common disease of humanity. Ignorance cloaks you in a narcotic-like fog and puts out your sparkle of reason, which you got from the Masters of Wisdom long ago, and that sparkle is hidden inside of you for the time being. But the moment will come when your sparkle starts burning, and the flame that will kindle within your being will be able to light up the path for many lost souls. You are burned, but you light up the path for others. That is why a torch or a candle is a symbol of enlightenment.

Devotion and service are those qualities that you must aspire to accumulate within yourselves as soon as you start coming out of the fog of ignorance. Your state of happiness directly depends on how successfully you will be able to overcome the ignorance and laziness that is inherent in the majority of humanity at this stage.

I say goodbye to you. It is sad that I cannot share my state of happiness with the greatest number of individuals who are incarnated on Earth now.